Sunday, 6 May 2007

Location Hunting

Prior to handing over the franchise fee, my development agent was very keen to push the apparantly wonderful support network offered to franchisees looking for stores. The impression I, and others, were under was that there would be a constant stream of stores being sent through from the DA office. Not the case. Infact, there have actually only been two stores sent to franchisees since October last year, and neither of those have opened yet! So, I've taken it upon myself to find the location, although the DA office still has to approve it.

This weekend I've been out and about accross West Yorkshire, mainly to look at four specific locations. Two I have completely written off, one in Bradford and one South-East of Leeds. Of the other two however, one is extremely promising. A busy suburban shopping centre location with an impressive footfall. The other is a town centre location, although has the negative of being a short walk from any parking.

I'll be sending these through to the DA tomorrow, so hopefully I'll finally be able to proceed to the next stage by the end of this coming week!

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